ROGERSTAUBACHANDTROYAIKMAN

They connect the two great eras of Cowboys football. Neither is from Dallas, but their names conjure up the city like no others. Staubach started at quarterback from 1971 to 1979 and guided the team to two Super Bowl championships. Aikman led the ‘Boys from 1989 to 2000, helping them win three titles. Years later, they are both just as successful off the field. The 60-year-old Staubach runs his own commercial real-estate company in Dallas, and the 35-year-old Aikman works as a broadcaster for FOX Sports and lives in Plano with his wife, who at press time was about to give birth to their second child. Staubach’s and Aikman’s continuing popularity reminds fans of how much the Silver and Blue achieved during their heyday—and how long ago that seems today. Quincy Carter, over to you.

LADAINIANTOMLINSONANDKENHALL

Texas high school football had never seen a running back like Hall. Playing for Sugar Land in the early fifties, he rushed for 11,232 yards—a record that still stands (even Cedric Benson’s headline-making season at Midland-Lee two years ago left him more than 1,800 yards short). Hall continued his career at Texas A&M, where he played for Paul “Bear” Bryant, but never quite found his footing. Today the 66-year-old owns Ken Hall’s Barbecue Place, in Fredericksburg. A generation later, Rosebud native Tomlinson set a record of his own. Playing for Texas Christian University from 1997 through 2000, he set the Division I-A record for the most rushing yards in a single game—406 against the University of Texas at El Paso in 1999—and led the NCAA in rushing twice. He continues to impress in the pros: As a starter for the San Diego Chargers last year, Tomlinson led all rookies with 1,236 yards and ten touchdowns.

TONYDORSETT

No one had a more-fitting set of initials. Dorsett, forever known as T.D., won the Heisman trophy at the University of Pittsburgh in 1977, came to the Dallas Cowboys as a rookie a few months later, and promptly ran his way to a Super Bowl ring. He played for the ‘Boys until 1987 (longtime fans like to forget that he finished his pro career with Denver), setting almost every Cowboy rushing record before Emmitt Smith came along. Still, Dorsett owns the record for the longest touchdown run from scrimmage in NFL history: 99 yards. Now 48, he lives in Dallas, where he gives the occasional speech and works in public relations.

KLIFFKINGSBURY, JAMESSTREET, SAMMYBAUGH, ANDMARKFARRIS

Throwing a football through a tire helped Baugh become one of the first great quarterbacks in the Southwest Conference. After growing up in Temple and Sweetwater, he did it all at Texas Christian University in the mid-thirties, winning a national championship in 1935 while playing quarterback, defensive back, and punter—usually in the same game. He went on to play sixteen seasons with the Washington Redskins, earning accolades and, for a while, the highest paycheck in the pros. Today the 88-year-old, a charter member of both the college and pro football halls of fame, lives on the Double Mountain Ranch northwest of Abilene, between Rotan and Aspermont. No slouch himself, Street led the University of Texas to an NCAA title in 1969 and, amazingly, never lost a game as a starter, finishing his college career at 20-0. (He never played as a pro.) Now 54, he lives in Austin and works as a financial planner. Kingsbury, a senior at Texas Tech University, is a Heisman trophy candidate this year and already owns 33 school records, including the most passing yards in a season (3,502) and eight Big XII records, including the most touchdown passes in a season (25). Farris, a senior at Texas A&M, set the Aggie record for the most passing yards in a season (2,551). Both are on track to be the most prolific passers in their schools’ history. So who’s better? Find out on October 5, when they go head-to-head for the final time in College Station.

MIKESINGLETARY

It all started with the eyes. The most dominating middle linebacker of his era, Singletary terrorized his opponents with a ferocity that was matched only by the intimidation of his stare. From 1977 to 1980, the Houston native played for Baylor University, where he was named a consensus all-American twice and the Southwest Conference defensive player of the decade. Today, the 43-year-old still